gersonides (9 Ergebnisse)

Softbound. Zustand: Good. Octavo, paper covers with surface wear near the base of the spine, xii, 323 pp., selected bibliography, index, ink-stamps, soiling to the rear inside cover Mediaeval Sources in Translation, 19.

Hardcover with dust jacket. VG/VG 161 pp.

Hardbound. Zustand: Very Good. Octavo in dust jacket, xxxii, 161 pp., notes, works cited, index Translated from the Hebrew with an Introduction & Annotations by Menahem Keller.

Hardbound. Zustand: Good. First Edition. Octavos in dust jacket, frontispiece illustration, xiv, 3-580 pp., Appendix: Gersonides and Astrology, byTzvi Langermann, bibliography, critical apparatus to Books Five and Six, index Translated with an introduction and notes by Seymour Feldman.

Trade Paperback. Zustand: NEAR FINE. xii, 323pp. Sewn binding in printed wraps. Tips a bit worn, very clean and sharp otherwise. 'Gersonides (Levi ben Gershom, 1288-1344) was a Provençal Jew whose scholarly and literary interests included astronomy, mathematics, biblical exegesis, and philosophy. In deciding to offer a translation of Gersonides' treatise on divine cognition Professor Samuelson has chosen wisely; this theory is both philosophically interesting and historically important. Gersonides accepted the validity of the dilemma between divine foreknowledge and human freedom and claimed that God has no knowledge of particulars, especially of future contingent events. Yet, although Gersonides clearly opted for human freedom, he did not abandon altogether divine omniscience. The latter notion is redefined as: God knows all that which is knowable; but future contingent events are not knowable. Professor Samuelson's book consists of two parts: a long introduction and a translation with commentary. The introduction provides a detailed analysis of Gersonides theory of divine cognition and a general account of Gersonides views on other philosophical matters. The former is most useful, since Gersonides' argumentation is not always transparent; the latter is informative, although it raises several questions. Professor Samuelson imputes to Gersonides several doctrines whose provenance in Gersonides is either dubious or debatable. For example, he attributes to Gersonides a distinction between individuals and particulars, which he claims is expressed in Gersonides philosophical Hebrew by two conceptually distinct terms. But this is false: Gersonides uses these terms indiscriminately. Sometimes Samuelson suggests that Cersonides advocates a certain theory (e.g., a theory of modal expressions), but he does not indicate where such a theory can be found in Gersonides' writings. Nevertheless, his introduction is quite helpful and philosophically interest-ing. The translation itself if based upon a copy of the editio princeps that contains hand-written variant readings which clearly improve the faulty state of the original printed edition. In translational methodology Samuelson has chosen the literal approach, which is certainly commendable; but the translation tends to be monotonous because he regularly employs the same English word for each occurrence of a particular Hebrew term. The use of synonyms would have resulted in a more readable translation. There are passages that could have been rendered more accurately or precisely: but happily these are relatively few and usually occur where the argument itself is most convoluted or obscure. Professor Samuelson has given us an important and generally accurate English edition of Gersonides' treatise on divine cognition.' ( Seymour Feldman, Review in AAR Vol. 47, No. 2, June, 1979).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 463pp. Text in Hebrew. Nicely rebound in black cloth.

Paperback, 335 p., 130 x 195 mm. ISBN 9780888442680. Languages : English. 0 g.

8vo. xiv, 139, 100 pp. In German and Hebrew. Quarter black cloth with marbled paper boards, manuscript title info on spine label; inner hinges mended with tape repair (performed neatly). Burndy bookplate. Very good. Rare. Levi ben Gershon, better known by his Graecized name as Gersonides, or by his Latinized name Magister Leo Hebraeus, or in Hebrew by the abbreviation of first letters as RaLBaG, was a medieval French Jewish philosopher, Talmudist, mathematician, physician and astronomer/astrologer. "Lange (1909) completed a critical edition of Maaseh Hoshev with a translation to German in 1909, but the last section of problems is completely missing, and other minor omissions were caused by Langeâs lack of access to all the extant manuscripts. A critical edition of the problem section appears in Simonson (forthcoming)." [Shai Simonson, "The Mathematics of Levi ben Gershon." Mathematics Teacher, Vol. 93, No. 8, November 2000. / Dr. Gerson Lange, Leader of the Rabbinate in Warburg, Germany & later Director of School of R. Samson Raphael Hirsch in Frankfurt am Main.

Hardcover & Dust Jacket. Zustand: Good. Six books in three volumes sfep djs worn Discusses in detail issues that preoccupied the medieval mind-immortality of the soul,prophecy, human freedom, divine providence, creation of the world, miracles, dreams . Levi Ben Gersonides of Provence known as Gersonides (1288-1344) was one of the most creative and daring minds within the medieval Jewish world. pages.